- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
More like the Not!Communists call themselves Ymaryn admirers.
Paths of Civilization
- Thread starter Academia Nut
- Start date
- Original
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Depends on the historians, and how things evolve. Like, if they were to all disappear next turn then they would probably become like the Indus: an interesting and surprisingly sophisticated civilization that ultimately had little impact on the greater history of the world. If its industrial age historians from the same tradition then they would have a very different opinion. The overall opinion is likely to be somewhere in between. In all likelihood, all prior struggles and accomplishments up to this point will be lumped into one or two categories like "Pre-Dynastic" or "Old Kingdom" and all the real fun stuff (in the opinion of historians) starts when they become a local hegemon and do exciting things like go out and conquer new territory and get into catastrophic civil wars that epics are written about.
Just a war mission: the king supports subjects. Just Red Banner: the king can afford to send help. Both: the king has his subject's back as much as possible given the circumstances.
pblur
Reminiscing over the halcyon days of Ymaryn
- Location
- Lawrence's Wagon
Wait, wait, I got this! 50 million people NOT freezing and starving to death in a gulag?
- Location
- Canada
Give it time until we are large enough so our half exiles reach that number and they're out working hard in the winter weather.
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
Also a remarkable lack of lethal internal power struggles.
- Location
- The People's Saltern
We did get an additional province, but it didn't give us another province action. We just got the double main back. And it seems like we're probably not going to get more free actions.
In fact, we might actually lose some in the reshuffle, but we might get something in return.
- Location
- Staring into the void
[X][Main] Sacred Forest Renewal
[X][Main] Sacred Forest Renewal x2
[X][Secondary] War Mission - Northern Nomads
[X][Divine] Speak against it (-1 Religious Authority, potential trouble for heir)
[X] Red Banner Company - Northern Nomads
[X][Main] Sacred Forest Renewal x2
[X][Secondary] War Mission - Northern Nomads
[X][Divine] Speak against it (-1 Religious Authority, potential trouble for heir)
[X] Red Banner Company - Northern Nomads
fictionfan
Please sir, may I have some Meows?
- Location
- Tempe, AZ
I think we have had a few. However all of those people died very quietly. I think the shamens know some good poison.
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
actually our half exiles are likely to drop in demand relatively soon given we've discovered watermilling.
0) Build those goddamned roads so we stop culture drifting so hard. We can shove this in any time in the middle, just distribute some land first
0) Grab those extra provinces for manpower advantages
0) Integrate a chunk of Western Wall when Diplomacy allows
1) Palace + Census first to assert control
2) Temple and Library in Holy Sea to provide culture bridge
3) Temple and Library in Star Mirror to link up with Holy Sea and provide religious authority over the coast and along the river
4) Aqueduct in Stonepen to move the Northern cultural center towards the closer Stonepen than the more remote Stallion Tribes
If resources allow, definitely.
If.
That's why Balanced. The random hits to stats really make taking risks on megaproject suck
Basically the war mission is nice, but it's not necessary and we REALLY need to deal with the damned weather, which is a fair sight more dangerous than the Horde.
Incidentally, did the horde take a swing at the Thunder Speakers?
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- Location
- Voidbetweenstars
I think integrating the stallions would be what needs be done.
Just a reminder, we have an opportunity for a free policy switch as long as we maintain 3 stability this turn.
Sounds like we will get in a civil war and conquer the world sooner or later.
DocMatoi
Theoretical Lover of Girls
- Location
- within 2 hours of the White House
- Pronouns
- They/Them
"So here's 3000 years of peace and relative utopia, so far as we can tell, under the Ymaryn Hegemony. Boring, right?"
- Location
- Voidbetweenstars
- Location
- Canada
Yeah I was just being facetious
- Location
- Somewhere over the rainbow
It occurs to me that this means if we play it all out reasonably well, historians are going to go "The Ymaryn are boring as shit, there isn't anything cool to talk about since they all handle things so goddamn peacefully! Ooh, I know! Let's write an expose about how actually it was all a thieving den of backstabbers, ignoring the fact that it was actually quite subdued compared to all the backstabbing elsewhere, because the only other option is talking about their goddamn tax records!"
Or
"We could talk about Ymaryn tax records or some love affair that the Ymaryn clearly didn't care about overmuch, or we could talk about the bloodbath in the Lowlands! Let's talk about the Lowlands bloodbath."
Or
"There is no fucking way these so-called Ymaryn never had a civil war. That's bullshit, your government is bullshit, these historical records are bullshit, it's all faked, and in conclusion, go fuck yourself. Signed, Xohyrissian School of History"
Or
"We could talk about Ymaryn tax records or some love affair that the Ymaryn clearly didn't care about overmuch, or we could talk about the bloodbath in the Lowlands! Let's talk about the Lowlands bloodbath."
Or
"There is no fucking way these so-called Ymaryn never had a civil war. That's bullshit, your government is bullshit, these historical records are bullshit, it's all faked, and in conclusion, go fuck yourself. Signed, Xohyrissian School of History"
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
You presume not dealing with the horde will give us more actions to deal with the weather rather than it causing the war to drag on and ultimately be a larger drain.
- Location
- Australia
The nomads will be going up against the Stallion Tribes, Western Wall, the Heaven's Hawks, and the Red Banner Company. The only reason the nomads are attacking is because they're a new tribe and thus fatally stupid, not because they have any actual chance of a victory.
- Pronouns
- They/Them
It is incredibly unlikely that a single secondary war mission will be the deciding factor in a conflict that already includes the Stallions and two mercenary companies. If the northern tribes are that strong they were going to overwhelm the Heaven's Hawks no matter what. However, given that they're hardly treated as an overwhelming threat in the text I think that's unlikely at best.
ThrawnCA
Carbon-based biped
- Location
- Australia
Actually, if we were already on Balanced, I would support just staying there instead of spending an extra action to shift. We can do a pretty good job of megaprojects on Balanced.
- Location
- Third planet from the star named Sol
- Pronouns
- He/They
I have a new argument in favor of not speaking against the Divine Patrons. It would make for an interesting myth for people to look back on, as there would be a myth meant to explain it, and it would likely have something to do with the current climate change.